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APROOJTEISSl Of'V AND APPARATUS FOR' `JRLATINGV COTTON SEED'AND HULL-S.

No. 530,533. Patented Deja; 11,1394;-

UNITED STATES PATENT. einen,

0NE`HALE To HUGH s. 4HAYLEY SAME PLACE.

AND DWIGHT M. ARMSTRONG, 0F

, i* Peocrss or AND AP'PARATS ron Tammo coTToN stro AND H uLLsu SECIEICATION forming of Letters Patent No, 5305-33, dated December 11I 1894,.

` Appnctnni una nach 2711394. seen No. 505.263. nt man To zallwleomtyrnay camerali' Beit 'knownV that L'iwrrjmmCommNe .TQH- NSQm-a citizen ofthe United States, re. siding at4 Memphis-,in the county of Shelby.' and State of '1ennessee,h'ave invented certain new andilsefnl Improvements irrProcesseszol` and Apparatus for Treating Cotton: Seed and Holle; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invenxotion, such as'will enable others skilled in. the' art to which it appel-gains toinake and use-the saine, reference being. hadto the accompany- A and mixed into an elegant food stockgorffertilizer'f'free from liber; Heretofore,jeiorts' l-have been lmade inthis direction,f.but it has z 5 been found impossible to separate-the hulls' 4- and `kernel'sand dberatter theyhavebeenine' t 4connuin'gl'ed in their passag'eiromthebreaker througha Lichgte. Hencev4 a. "goed gt n'tlity.A of food 'stockfconld not befobtainedi' and, as the anda perfectlynniforinquality of long',r ,ber suitableior paper stock.

With these objects' in viemmy invention' "consists in breaking the hr1-lis by attrition and concussion,` 'and then conducting 'the broken. mass forcibly 'and rapidly into .a 'separator which thoronghly separates the' ber from the hull and kernel.l

My' invention consistsl also -iirertainsteps hereinafter detailed, and it consists/also in4 certain constrnctions-and combinatiousmore fully described hereinafter and pointedyont intheclaimenl In the drawings forming a partei this specitieation, Figure 1 isa 'longitndinalelevation fiberwas c nt so very often,zaf uniform 'gradeA vof.iibex' c o'uld .not becbtained, andall u'se'of Y. itas a'pap'er stock had tobeabandoued. My] invention cures' these defects, and prod aces an'absolutely.tiberlessefood-stockorfertilizerl 3-51- partly in section', showing the improved appa- 5o 'ratus forcarrying out my improved process; Figi. is a 'delailrcross sectional view of 'one .of the separators.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a. `.rotary i;neakeror grinder A, consisting of the 'disks a arranged vertically in close proximity and, revolved rapidly in 'opposite directions by means of the shafts'a' a carrying the pnlthe adhering liber are fed to the' breaker or: Vgrinder .by means of a' hopper, a3.l .The disks are so 'consti-noted and arranged that the hulls an'dkernelsare broken or split without cut. ,n l A Y :ting the iibexgand the revolutions of the two This' invention relates' to a process and apf paratus for treating. cottonl seeds and hulls, by means. of which the libel-#is entirely sepaf rated from the seed and collected by itselt to? formY aunform batting, wedding, or., paper-v stock, 'while the hull and kernels are crushed disks are such that the broken mass is forci- 'b1y ejected into a separator B located directly ybeneath' -the breaker orgrinder. 'This sepaf rator B-'consists essentially of `a Ushaped trough b, formed of some strong bolting or screen-ing material, such aswire ganze, the 7o 'meshthereofl being'veryne. A rotary brush Bf is journaled within the said trough, said brush consisting ofua series of oblique arms b', 4carrying brushes b2 which contact with the lface'ol 'the' wire-ganze 'or screen. As the broken', hulls and kernels andv liber are re- "cei'ved into-the separator, the 'rapidly revolving brush forces them into contact with the wireganze and carryinghem around separates'the iiberffrointhehnll- .and forces said` 8o hulls and'kerne'l through theA mesh; and the ber bein'g'restrained from passing through,

is fed'ont at the'end of the 4separator intoa chute C, by means of which it `is led to; a second ,-brekerf or grinder D, similar yto the 85 breaker'A except-l that the disks 'are arranged 'somewhat closer than in the viirst instance. The object for* this second breaker is to break or grind anypart-icles too-large. tobe forced- ',through'theseparator B, and also to accom 9o plisha further separation between the-hulls' and'. ber. The hulls,`=l &c.,f after passing through the gsecond breaker .1), are received into 'asecond separatorE, which is also simirated hlills,&c.,whichwere forced through Y the'drst .separator are received into a chute C?, and-bythat means conducted to the seolar'to the ,onev before described. The sepa` 95',

ond. sepzzrf'rtor, where 'they :1ro given 'an-other treatment, so 'that every mrticle of fiber may- .rstci ami e. nniiorin grade of food stool ,v slmirmcd. The finished productisthen cisndncted to a bag or other suitabiere'cepf iacie by mez-ms oi a chute G2. The fiber has, by these variousoperaiions, been tho-roughly separated from the hulls and kernels, and the operations have been such that the fiber has not been .cut or injured, so that a uniform quality of icing stock is obtainable which can be 'used in the manufacture ci paper, if so desired. Thebattingorwaddixighusproduced can-bc' conducted directly from lthe second separator; but il. a particularly fine quality of stonk is desired, we lead it into a beater F,

consisting of a chamber f and a rotary beater f", tbe'rovemt'ione of Awhich are so rapid that the ber is titres-:n upward toward a passage f2 .and ail dirt and impurities will fall of their wcigget to the bottom of the beater. Cond 'with tee passage f2 is a conductor the massinto aseparator, conducting the fiber to a second breaker and subjecting the same toI a finer and closer grinding operation and then .forcibly @jee-ting the ground mass into a secondseparaieor, the bolted mass from the first 'separator being led also to this second separator4 and finally oonductngr the separated fiber away from the second separator, snlfstantlly f shown and described.

2. 'In an' apparatus of the ciass described, the co mbnation with the vertical rotarydsks, a a, ofthe horizontal separator, B, arranged beneath the same, the 'chute C leading from thexend of separator, the chute, C"leading from the bottom ot4 separator, thesecond breaker, D, the disks of which are arranged closer. together than the disk @of 4-the rst breaker, the horizontal separator'Bf-and the chutes for cond noting the ltiber and bolted ma terial, substantially as shown and described.

3. In 'an apparatus of the class described, the combination with a breaker, consisting of the'oppositely revolving disks, 'of' a separator comprising sa screen and brush, the chutes leading therefrom, a second breaker having its disks closer to eachother than the'first breaker,a second separator and 'abeateig'all arranged and connected., `.solistantially as -shown and described.'

In testimony whereof I-aixmy'signaturc in presence of two witnesses. j

' HIRAM UAMPBELL WRI'NNER, I

WM. S.,RosEnnoUGH.

@immer ldMa-y 26` 1906, by the inventor and assigne-es.- y

To 'that partof the 301mm inl said peoioatioo whiroh i in thefolflowm Witt' H "4 2. Inah. appauu ofthe classdesoibed, the combination with thwe alfot leading from 'the ehd of separator, theohte, C', leading'frn'n the' -ljtia'omp Sopofaf 'the second brekrfilfthe disksofwhich mefmranggdloser vtogothe`l 

